ansible/test/integration/targets/service/files/ansible_test_service

#!/usr/bin/env python

# this is mostly based off of the code found here:
# http://code.activestate.com/recipes/278731-creating-a-daemon-the-python-way/

import os
import resource
import sys
import time

UMASK = 0
WORKDIR = "/"
MAXFD = 1024

if (hasattr(os, "devnull")):
   REDIRECT_TO = os.devnull
else:
   REDIRECT_TO = "/dev/null"

def createDaemon():
   try:
      pid = os.fork()
   except OSError as e:
      raise Exception("%s [%d]" % (e.strerror, e.errno))

   if (pid == 0):
      os.setsid()

      try:
         pid = os.fork()
      except OSError as e:
         raise Exception("%s [%d]" % (e.strerror, e.errno))

      if (pid == 0):
         os.chdir(WORKDIR)
         os.umask(UMASK)
      else:
         f = open('/var/run/ansible_test_service.pid', 'w')
         f.write("%d\n" % pid)
         f.close()
         os._exit(0)
   else:
      os._exit(0)

   maxfd = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)[1]
   if (maxfd == resource.RLIM_INFINITY):
      maxfd = MAXFD

   for fd in range(0, maxfd):
      try:
         os.close(fd)
      except OSError:	# ERROR, fd wasn't open to begin with (ignored)
         pass

   os.open(REDIRECT_TO, os.O_RDWR)
   os.dup2(0, 1)
   os.dup2(0, 2)

   return(0)

if __name__ == "__main__":

   retCode = createDaemon()

   while True:
       time.sleep(1000)